Second Great Awakening



The Second Great Awakening was a spiritual movement that lasted from around 1790 to 1840. Baptist and Methodist preachers led the reaction against skepticism, deism, and rationalism. It increased the supporters of moralism in the United States, leading to the persecution of religious minorities.

History
By the mid-1830s a wave of religious zeal was sweeping across the United States. Driven by charismatic preachers who called for the faithful to return to the original teachings of the Bible and lead upstanding moral lives, the movement would spawn several new Protestant sects, lead to debates and schisms within establish sects over points of theology and ritual, and reinforce the power and influence of Christian teachings among the middle and lower classes of the American people at a time when religious fervor in Europe was decreasing.